As the present regulations in Hungary allow gathering of maximum ten people, the traditional commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest had to combine online and offline content. The event was streamed on the Facebook page and YouTube channel of the institution, with the online content available also on the...
In accordance with the measures aimed suppressing the COVID-19 pandemic, the permanent and temporary exhibitions of the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest are closed to the visitors for an indefinite period from Wednesday, November 11, 2020. The team of the Memorial Center is looking forward to welcoming visitors a soon as the circumstances allow it. Please,...
The Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest will organize a conference titled “Holocaust Memory: Recent Challenges in Research and Representation” on November 10 and 11,2020. The primary aim of the conference is to give an overview of the status of Holocaust research in some of the countries in the former Eastern and Western block during the past three decades since the end...
What are the authentic locations of the Holocaust in Hungary? How do we preserve them and how do they contribute to remembrance? How do we commemorate where locations have remained unmarked? These and similar exciting questions will be answered by Hungarian and foreign experts at an international conference organized by the Holocaust Memorial Center on 31 August and 1...
As of 14 July 2020, the permanent exhibition of the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest, titled From Deprivation of Rights to Genocide is reopened for visitors. In order to provide safe circumstances for our visitors, the following measures are taken: 1. The maximum number of visitors in the area of the exhibition is 25 persons any...
The cordially invites you to the commemoration of the on Monday, January 27, 2020, at 2 pm. 14:00 Lighting the candles of remembrance by students of Budapest schools; 14:00 Salutatory by Dr. Tamás Kovács, director of the Holocaust Memorial Center; 14:20 Message of the Secretary General of the United...
Kind words of support and appreciation from Bonnie L. Glick, Deputy Administrator of USAID, following her visit to the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. "It was a deeply moving experience for me and a welcome reminder of humanity's capacity for evil but also of our shared responsibility to remember and to prevent hatred on that scale from ever again gaining a...
What was the daily experience of Jews hiding from the German machine of extermination and those who brought them help sometimes even risking their lives? An exhibition that juxtaposes these two distinct yet intertwined perspectives will be displayed at the Holocaust Memorial Center from 6 November till 15 December 2019. The travelling display showcases personal stories of...
What was the daily experience of Jews hiding from the German machine of extermination and those who brought them help sometimes even risking their lives? An exhibition that juxtaposes these two distinct yet intertwined perspectives will be displayed at the Holocaust Memorial Center from 6 November till 15 December 2019. The travelling display showcases personal stories of...
To the Memory of the Victims of the Hungarian Holocaust The theme of the permanent exhibition is the Holocaust in Hungary. Its aim is to present and describe the persecution, suffering and murdering of Hungarian citizens, Jews and Roma, doomed to be exterminated on the basis of a racist ideology. The leading idea of the exhibition is to shed light on the relation between...
How many persons died in the Holocaust and what is the number of the Hungarian victims?
The estimations of the number of victims of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe vary between five to six millions. Some ten percent of them were from Hungary, some 5 to 6 hundred thousand.
